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I am ashamed to tell you that I was a Christian 22 years before I ever thought about Doctrine..I knew the Word (all we really need for salvation and a full Christian life )

I do believe that most people do not give such things a thought

That is one of the values of religious threads IMHO

Sometimes seeing a title will make someone think.

Do ya suppose they yelled at each other during all those early councils? Do ya spose that Paul yelled at Peter:>) , Did ya ever read some of the harsh words exchanged by Luther and Erasmus??

Are we passionate about the word of God..geeeee I hope so!!

It is good you are teaching...very good!

I do believe that most people do not give such things a thought That is one of the values of religious threads IMHO Sometimes seeing a title will make someone think.

Agreed.

Some of the lesser amount of activity probably has to do with families and others getting back fully to the school/work schedule of the school year. I think late spring, summer and early fall are the slowest times for FR partly because FReepers are a bit outdoorsy and tend to get out and do things. This is across the board, not just in the Religion forum. We have a lot of parents with kids at home on these fora and we do have to compete with school events as well.

I expect that, even with the current and entirely predictable complacence among Republicans and even among conservatives given that "we" hold the White House, we'll still probably see some pickup around election time and people spending more time around here as the weather keeps them from outside more often and as the full political season gets underway. I know I'm much more active in the colder months. Think about it. If the Battle For Floriduh had been fought in the summer months, would anyone have showed up? OF COURSE THEY WOULD! Well, I like to think so but have a few nagging doubts.

As far as some of the other noticable ebb and tide in religious threads, sometimes it has to do with events in the real world (controversial statements or actions by celebrity Christians of all denominations or the actions of some denominational organization or a media attack on some denomination like the church of Rome or Southern Baptists.

And, from time to time, some of us feel our theological battery has run down a bit and that we've repeated ourselves so many times on a particular issue that we save ourselves the effort of typing the same old responses yet one more time and forcing someone else to parse them yet one more time, in short, the lack of anything new to say on the subject. Hey, it happens even to FReepers.